metelik

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish متالك (metalik, metelik), from French métallique. Cognate with English metallic.

Noun[edit]

metelik (definite accusative metaliği, plural metelikler)

  1. (historical) a copper coin worth 10 paras
    • 1931 January 1, Son Posta, caption below comic of a woman showing old junk to a man:
      "Eskici! Şunlara ne verirsin?" "Sen onları at denize... İki metelik etmez!"
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes[edit]

  • The word surived past the end of the coin it described in the phrase metelik etmez, not worth a dime, as in the quotation above.

References[edit]

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “متالك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1104
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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